Evangelical Christianity has often experienced a difficult relationship with the contemporary sciences. Ironically, the Evangelical movement has benefited greatly over the decades in various ways from implementing scientific and technological advances in communication and media for gospel proclamation. Given the widespread Evangelical conviction that all truth is God’s truth as

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“Science for Seminaries” will make a basic acquaintance with science a required and expected part of the curriculum at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, PA. Scientific topics will be integrated into required courses in Old Testament, Pastoral Care, and Worship. The relationship of theology and science will also form

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Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, will launch a two-year initiative: “Science and the Pastoral Ministry: Preparing Pastors for Fruitful Engagement between Science and Theology.” The two-part program focuses on integrating science into certain core courses and supporting campus-wide efforts to promote discussions about science and theology. Through coursework, students

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With the help of the AAAS Science for Seminaries program, Columbia Theological Seminary launches a bold, new program to integrate science into its core curriculum and thereby strengthen its mission “to educate and nurture faithful, imaginative, and effective leaders for the sake of the Church and the world.” Located in

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The Catholic University of America School of Theology and Religious Studies will develop science content to be incorporated into its M. Div. curriculum. The intention is to create a scientific conversation across a broad set of courses, both core curriculum and electives, that will help develop seminarians who can address

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Unlike most seminaries and theological schools, The Andover Newton Theological School—the nation’s oldest theological school and first graduate institution of any kind, located in Newton Centre, Massachusetts—organizes the building blocks of a theological education into distinct “competencies” students will need to be effective faith leaders. Examples of such competencies include

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Wake Forest University School of Divinity (WFUSD) has been a leader in the interdisciplinary approach to theological education. Guided by the university motto, Pro Humanitate (“For Humanity”) and the theological vision of serving the wider world, WFUSD has made strenuous efforts to create an ideal learning environment for the education

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The Regent University School of Divinity leads the integrative project “Contemporary Science and the Renewal of Christian Faith.” The heart of this project is an engagement of various sciences by the theological core curriculum of three master’s programs as well as the exploration of contributions from the theological disciplines to

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The goal of the Jesuit School of Theology‘s project is to build an appreciation of the natural sciences into the culture of the school through curriculum, student participation, and a series of workshops. The principal activity will be to include units of physical science in six-to-nine theology courses per year.

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“Oh So Human, Yet So Divinely Complex: Science and Theology in the Exploration of Human Identity, Community, and Purpose” is the exciting new Science for Seminaries project of Howard University School of Divinity—one of thirteen schools and colleges within Howard University. Throughout the divinity school’s 144-year history, it has shown

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